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America looks for fresh programming

by David M. Shribman Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams did it. So did Martin Van Buren and William Henry Harrison. Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, too. Also William Jennings Bryan and William McKinley. And of course, Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai ...

As Biden’s son is investigated, Joe is staying out of it

It’s still unclear whether the smoke around Hunter Biden’s foreign financial connections actually indicates a fire. That’s what federal investigators are (and should be) exploring. But here’s what’s already clear about the investigation into President Joe Biden’s son: The ...

President Biden can’t handle his job

by Jay Ambrose Someone forgot to tie him to his Oval Office chair, and so it was that President Joe Biden took off for Europe to discuss the Ukraine horror with NATO and European leaders, visit Poland and fumble enough rhetorically to conceivably make the situation worse. He said ...

Biden slipped up, but he was right

President Joe Biden’s speech in Warsaw on Saturday movingly framed Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine as a battle “between liberty and repression, between a rules-based order and one governed by brute force.” Then Biden ad-libbed, putting an unexpected, provocative capstone on what ...

A billionaires tax is a necessity

by Michael Hiltzik After years of largely theoretical discussion among Democrats, the idea of a billionaires tax has now become official policy. Kudos to President Joe Biden for putting the billionaires tax on the table as part of his budget proposal for fiscal 2023. A means of ...

Long inflation and its political impacts

by Byron York While much of the political world focused on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson, across town in Washington on Monday, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, delivered a speech that could reverberate through the next two ...